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  • Muslim woman fights Boulder jail to keep hijab for mug shot

    12/04/2010 7:38:53 AM PST · by bjorn14 · 141 replies · 2+ views
    Boulder Daily Camera ^ | 3 December 2010 | Erica Meltzer
    A University of Colorado student who started wearing hijab after converting to Islam is fighting the Boulder County Jail's insistence that she remove her headscarf for a booking photo, saying that to do so would violate her religious beliefs. Maria Hardman, 19, of Boulder, reported to the jail Wednesday to do the paperwork for a two-day work crew sentence that was supposed to be served this weekend. But when a jail detention officer told her to remove her headscarf for her mug shot, she balked. "It's stated in the Koran in two or three places that believing women should wear...